At a time when most movie producers seem to trust only celebrities to pull in box-office bucks, Hong Kong director Derek Yee has made a big-budget movie with, and about, a relatively unknown cast.
The political satire Gone With the Bullets has won the Dirty Ashtray Award for being the smokiest film of the past year. Xu Fan reports.
An online talkshow hosted by China's most renowned antique collector, Ma Weidu, has become a surprise hit, with young audiences showing a keen interest in Ma's discussions about culture, history and social events.
China's annual Film Critics' Choice Awards have been given to five films instead of 10, Han Bingbin reports.
To mark the International Museum Day on May 18, Chen Dongyun, cultural counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Cairo, donated a batch of museum-friendly equipment to the Egyptian Museum as a representative of Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Song Aiguo.
Key cultural exchange programs 'Chinese Culture in Focus 2015' and 'Year of China' in South Arica will be held in more than 20 countries in Africa and Chinese cities,according to a press conference by Chinese Ministry of Culture Beijing on May 19
Rare photos of the Imperial Palace are being seen by the public for the first time since 1949.
Dubai week was topped off with a show of the country's culture, food and art in Beijing on May 15.
At Longquan Monastery, a 1,000-year-old courtyard building at the foot of the mountains in Beijing's western suburbs, Venerable Master Xuecheng meets with friends and talks about Buddhism.
The Dutch owner of a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue containing a mummified monk has said he will return the artifact to China within a month.
"It takes lonely days, sleepless nights and an inevitably self-centered eye to create a great artwork, whether it's a movie or a piece of music," says Chinese singer-songwriter Shang Wenjie, referring to Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai's latest movie, Red Amnesia.
China's main event marking 2015 International Museum Day was held on Monday at the Hebei Museum in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province.